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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Walter Gottlieb LandPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2023 ISBN: 9783031217784ISBN 10: 3031217780 Pages: 677 Publication Date: 11 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface.- Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- Abbreviations.- Part I Prologue 1 Perspectives of the Danger/Injury Model of Immunology as Applied to Antigen-Related Human Disorders.- Part II Infections 2 Infectious Agents: From the Red Queen Paradigm to Some of Their Genuine Traits.- 3 Virulence of Pathogens and the Counteracting Responses of the Host.- 4 The DAMP-Driven Host Immune Defense Program Against Pathogens.- 5 The Pathogenetic Role of DAMPs in Severe Infectious Diseases.- Part III Autoimmunity 6 Basic Trajectories in Autoimmunity.- 7 DAMPs in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases.- 8 DAMPs in Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases.- Part IV Transplants and Cancer 9 The Undesirable and DesirableFunctions of DAMPs in Transplant and Tumor Rejection.- Part V Epilogue 10 Approaching the DAMPome: Evolution in Medicine?ReviewsAuthor InformationWalter G. Land is Professor Emeritus of the LMU University in Munich, Germany. After earning his MD, he spent four years specializing in Experimental Surgery, Immunology, and Organ Transplantation at the Institute for Surgical Research, LMU University, Munich. In 1979 he performed the first pancreas transplant in Germany at Klinikum Großhadern, where he subsequently spent almost 30 years as Head of the Transplantation Center. He also held a position as C3 Professor for Surgery and Transplantation Surgery in Munich for almost 20 years, until 2004. Currently, he is Emeritus Professor at LMU University Munich and Ancien Professeur Conventionné at the University of Strasbourg, France. Professor Land is an Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; also, he is an Honorary Member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the European Academy of Tumor Immunology. Professor Land has been a co-founder of many European and German Societies, including the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), European College of Organ Transplantation, the German Transplantation Society, the German Academy of Transplantation Medicine, and the Society of Innate Immunity. Professor Land has chaired the European Society for Organ Transplantation, the Society of Transplantation and Innate Immunity, and the Society of Innate Immunity. He is the author or editor of many articles and books, was awarded the Erich Lexer Prize by the German Surgical Society in 1991, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1996, the Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit in 1997, the Millennium Medal of the Transplantation Society in 2000, and the Maharshi Sushruta Prize for Transplantation Biology in India in 2005. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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